To be fair. I prefer it compared to waking up on the field being fully aware of what happend. The memory of my 160 kg linemate falling and landing with his ass on my head will never leave me. Just to be clear, I'd like it to..
My favorite part is after Flaco gets drilled to the head. He leans up slightly, not aware of who his father is, then signals with glossy eyes that he got the 1st down 😂
I had several concussions playing pee-wee football (ages 9-13). The most severe one I ever had was when I came to I couldn't talk or form a word for about a minute.
Regarding hits to the head( targeting), you can get suspended for it but it depends on circumstances and severity. An accidental one will be a fine and probably a game or 2 game suspension. Serious offense is a big fine and a longer suspension. Repetitive offense will be the worse case scenario with the maximum fine allowed, if i remember correctly a near full season suspension and the worse case scenario being released by the team with a permanent record of this situation and potentially end the player's career.
I got hit so hard on kick return in high school first year of varsity, all I remember is standing next to their sideline getting yelled at. Big time concussion lol. Played next week tho. Welcome to real man’s sport. No lawn fairies floppin around here.
Wife and I use to work for the Cleveland Browns here, the team in white and orange. We actually got married at the stadium before we moved to Atlanta. Going back home to Cleveland Browns stadium to work WWE SummerSlam in August! Love my Browns even though we have lost for 3 decades. 6:58 Also, this is Josh Cribbs who got knocked out, we use to run his fan club. One of the best returners in NFL history.
I once got hit so hard during practice where everything was spinning for a second and I couldn’t feel my left arm. The guy who hit me said “I was surprised you got up so quickly” and that’s how I knew I earned his respect. Stay safe in the pads yall!
For me, the biggest hit I took to the head was when playing in grade school without pads (of course). Running into a goalpost full speed and only turning to face it at the last instant while chasing an overthrown pass, will get your attention. Getting your nose cranked back to face forward again with pliers and no anesthetic is an eye-opener as well. But the injuries with the greatest long-term consequences tend to be from far less dramatic, even mundane, plays. My worst injury was a broken kneecap, where the broken shard migrated to the center of the knee where the bones meet. The kicker is that it was a non-contact injury from a lateral movement drill. Several teammates said it looked fake at the time because the damage was internal with no sideways buckling or anything. The first step after it migrated to the middle is the closest I've come to pissing my pants.
If you’re playing Madden with no prior experience, I recommend Rookie or Pro difficulty, not All-Pro or higher. All-Pro might be simple to use vets of the game, but Madden loves to hit you up with crazy interceptions and stuff, especially if you don’t know how to try to minimize them. No shame in taking it easy to get into the game!
6:16 Quaterbacks(the most important position on the team) who have rules made for them to protect them, because for some teams, of their quarter backs injured their season could be over. So if the quarterback(the guy that throws the ball) runs and doesn’t want to get hit/injured they can slide, and if anyone hits them, it is a penalty.
I was in an accidental head to head collision during a game. Felt something in my neck squish and tasted blood, but couldn't find any blood in my mouth after. I was walking around in a fog for 3-4 days after and still have neck problems and related headaches sometimes, 30+ years later. I did get some physical therapy a few years ago, and I now have a neck exercise regimen, both of which help a lot. The scary thing is that I came off the better of the two of us who collided. The other guy was just down on the ground and looked like he was shivering.
In High School I played the Safety position and had just started summer camp with the varsity team. One of the senior offensive lineman was the #1 ranked college prospect in our state and was in the top 50 overall prospects in the country. He stood around 6'4 and weighed in around 325lbs. I stand 5'10 and weighed at the time around 190lbs. So the coach decided to put me in as cornerback instead of safety during practice and he called a cornerback blitz where my job was to lineup close to the line but instead of running with the receiver I was to speed to the QB and try to sack or rush him into a bad throw. Now in practice actually hitting or tackling the QB was not allowed if you did well you would run laps until the coach got tired. So I lined up and took off and came off free or so I though I was so close to the pretend "hit" when everything went black. The next thing I knew I was on my back helmet off with coaches and a trainer hoovering over me. I also found that I was probably 5 yards or more away from where I had gotten hit. That big lineman I discussed above had rotated around and picked up the blitz and I never saw him coming. I don't remember what the impact was like I just know I was sore for days afterwards and my entire left shoulder and side was black and blue for a good week.
I got hit so hard one time in high school football that my chinstrap snapped in half. No concussion or anything that I know of, just had to get a new chin strap. I can’t imagine getting smacked in the nfl, that must be a whole different kind of force.
when i was a freshman in high school i played tight end and i caught a pass over the middle and knocked out i guess bc i didnt remember anything from that game. i just remember waking up in the hospital
My first year playing YAFL (Young American Football League) I was 12 years old and I played TE, which means the ball was sometimes thrown to me and I’d get to run. Well I hadn’t hit full puberty yet and was still a small kid, probably 90lbs (40.8kg) and the other team was much larger than me. One specific play they told me as soon as the ball is snapped, take two steps and look back, the ball will be coming. I did exactly that, the ball was indeed coming my way, I put two hands on it while I was mid-stride….. then I remember looking at the clouds and I was on my back on the ground. After that play, I decided I wanted to switch positions and be the person that gets to hit, and not get hit. Edit: “Do any of you have any injuries?” 1. Broken left and right big toe. 2. Torn right hamstring. 3. Torn right rotator cuff. 4. Concussions. 5. Fractured ribs. 6. Broken pinky fingers and right hand ring finger. 7. Torn right ACL 8. Torn left ACL x3 9. Torn left MCL 10. Torn left Meniscus. Oh just only a few injuries lol
Follow up from my previous comment: hits to the head can really screw your entire body because the head is the most important part of your body. The movements in our bodies comes from the brain which also connects to the spine and sends messages to our body for certain movements. If that gets damaged, the body struggles badly to respond and cause serious health problems. Head hits can cause serious damage to your brain, your neck, and your spine because all of that is connected to your head. Worse case scenario is being in a coma and potentially death.
I never got knocked out for an extended period but definitely woke up on the field at least once. My worst injury was getting Batista bombed on the back of my neck covering a punt
I played for one season as a teenager (blew my knee out) and I can remember, well, more specifically, I can connect the dots on a couple of instances where I got absolutely pasted by a fullback or a quick tailback who caught me in a bad tackling position.
My senior year in high school, on kickoff, me and the kick returner hit each other full speed helmet to helmet. I just remember a white flash, then looking up and seeing my teammates around me. Walked to the sideline trying to figure out what was going on, even though I started on defense, and should’ve been out there. Apparently I got up and stumbled off the field, with my defensive coach coming after me. He asked me where I was and I said school, and he said I looked at him like he wasn’t there. He told me to take a breather. The sad thing is I played through that that night as a nose guard and was on every other team besides offense. I did that through 3 concussions that season 17 years ago, and still have trouble with memory and mental health bad because of it.
I've been knocked out playing American Football. Sometimes the vision goes down two little pinholes and then fades back, sometimes you just go out and wake up later not knowing where you are or what happened.
I’m surprised Vontaze Burficit wasn’t on this compilation you watched. That guy was notoriously dirty, he would’ve been a HoF if it was the 70s/80s when most of the hits he made were legal.
I've had my bell rung a few times (dazzed not ko'd) but one time i was making a tackle chasing a guy and as i was tackling his teammates hit my head back and i scorpioned. Idk how probably adrenaline but i made it to the sideline under my own power before i had to lay down and let the trainers look at me... no concussions tho 😃
Biggest hit I have probably had happen was at my boyscouts camp we were chilling and playing football and I went to run into the endzone and ended up in the middle of both teams as they were all pushing against eachother. Ran into it got stood up by the other team just to be slammed into by my own team trying to push me forward. No major injuries besides some bruises and what not (never played for a team either, just with friends in little pickup games)
I never got knocked out like where I was just out on the field, but I did take a hit once and got up and while in the huddle was seeing double while trying to listen to the play being called. I was facing away from line of scrimmage and looked towards the far end zone and saw 2 goal posts, and twice as many people standing behind it...closest I ever came to being knocked completely out. Still scary, luckily when they give you those 3 words to trynand remember I could remember them and still do, so if by chance that trainer sees this, house,red, doggy.....brains still good lol
So in the first clip, that was the punter. Punters use different balls than what's used during normal play. usually they are called "k balls". They are much slicker than a ball you would see in normal play. Every team gets balls that their equipment manager can scuff up a bit, rub some mud on it so it's more tacky and easier for the qb to grib/throw and easier for the runner/receiver to catch.
One of the absolute worst injuries I've seen from the NFL was the Johnny Knox injury. Knox was a receiver for the Chicago bears. He literally got folded in half trying to recover a fumble. While he is "ok" today, he never played another down of the game.
As for me the only injury I've had, side from a strained hip flexor that I played through, was a broken finger. It happened on the last play of practice when I was nine. There to of my finger was crushed, three nail looked like a semi trucks good and you could see in my finger up to the first joint. I was out for the regular season but came back for the championship game.
Returning a kick, I had a dude hit me right in the temple. I popped up thinking, "Dang. I can't believe I didn't get knocked out." just based on how loud the impact was. Turned around and realized the dude that hit me was out cold and had a pile of his teeth stuck his mouth guard floating in a puddle of blood in front of him. Worst thing I ever saw in person on a football field and I've seen a few broken ankles, knees and fingers. Just creepy thinking you might have killed somebody.
0:41 Looks like he nearly fumbled the ball, possibly going for a punt, or preping to pass to a teammate. If he was trying to pass to a team mate, he can't do a forward pass, he'd have to do one that you would see in Rugby.
I had a teammate put the crown of his helmet right into my facemask on a tackle in practice. I have never been knocked out but I have been dazed and confused.
I had one in 7th grade where I was about to tackle someone from behind and then the 6’2 250 lbs linebacker (massive for that age) came in from the front and absolutely demolished the runner so bad that they both came back into me and folded me backwards like doing a scorpion and landed on me
My worst hit was when I jumped up to catch an overthrown pass and got clipped in the legs. On my way down another guy speared me, I held on to the ball at least.
I was at the Ravens game when the Miami player went after Flacco. Clearly he was going to slide, giving himself up. Kiko Alonso didn't care. The fact that he wasn't disqualified from the rest of the game only made it worse. The best part out of it was the score. Baltimore 40 Miami 0
My highschool yrs were just as voilent. We were alot lighter and smaller than the professionals, but the rules were not so resrictive for the defense. That was in the'70's
The Reggie bush hit and the Emmanuel sanders hit are the loudest I’ve yelled at a TV screen. They aren’t in this video so look them up. They are absolutely brutal
What platform are you gonna be playing madden on? If you have a ps5, I'll go buy madden tomorrow. I don't play it either but I know football but we can run some good teamwork lol
For College Football hitting head to head "Crown to the Hemet" with a defenseless player is a penalty called "Targeting" College Football players can be ejected even if it wasn't intentional but the NFL didn't imply it
He was done for rhe season because of concussion protocols. I think it was his second of the year then after that they wont let you play due to safety concerns
The helmets fly off so easily because a few players don't buckle in the chin strap all the way. The helmet has 4 buckles near the face mask, 2 on each side, for the Chin Strap, alot of players only buckle in the bottom two, leading to helmets going flying because the chin strap comes undone on contact
Got a concussion from American football so bad I shouldn’t been able to drive but did and I also was loved to go to school for 30 straight days then once I could go back I was only allowed to be there 35minutes - 1:30 hours and if my head hert I was sent home
You should check out highlights of Denver Broncos' safety Steve Atwater. Certified Hall of Famer and truly had some of the biggest and hardest hits I've ever seen. Also, for a more recent player, should check out Kareem Jackson. People say he's dirty, but he's really not. He's oldschool and hits like a truck. The league fucked him over last season and suspended him twice.
My like 4rth game freshman year I got hit so hard in the back of the head everything went white for like 3 seconds and I thought I was at the park with my family and was very confused for a good 30 seconds until it came back to me where I was 💀😂
Football is a pretty short season relatively speaking. If a guy get a head injury to where is completely out could it’s pretty reasonable to assume he’s done for the year. Unless maybe if it’s like the first game or 2 of the season
You should react to best NFL plays of the 2023 season so that youv a see the NFL actually has offense and not just hitting each other. there's more to the game (But definitely still check out the legion of boom for the Seahawks) if you want to see people get crushed
Up until the last couple of years the helmets(and the pads in general) weren't designed to protect your brain. They were designed to protect your skin and muscles on your body. So it's understandable for people out side of the US to think because they're wearing helmets that it's a less brutal sport than sports like rugby, but when you get hit helmet to helmet it's like throwing two basketballs at each other or throwing it at the ground. They bounce off very hard. So players are just riddled with CTE at the end of their career from all the concussions.
Ive knocked myself snowboarding a couple times now, fainted into a tree face first one time, passed out in my garage straight onto concrete, i got knocked off the backseat of a golf cart when the roof hit a tree and the metal bent back into my face, what else... oh i shouldve been paralyzed in high school football practice when my c3 and c4 moved so much from a knee to the head the docs said they were honestly surprised i wasnt paralyzed. Anddd i almost forgot when i was 6, busting my forehead open on the corner of the sidewalk before bouncing my face off the pavement, breaking my nose and busting my lip in the process after i fell off my scooter going down hill. Typing this out just made me realize i probably have cte already...
I played football in high school (defensive tackle) and mind you this was in the 1970’s before all the penalties were called for smacking helmets together etc.. as a matter of fact, we were taught to put your head down and do your best to end the other players season. Generally I held my own but during 3A playoffs for the state, I had my own head shoved up my own ass from getting hit so hard by an offensive lineman. I have little to no memory of the hit because when I did wake up in the back of the ambulance, I was told I didn’t recognize my own brother (and I only had one brother!). I missed the entire weekend and part of the following school week because I couldn’t stand up straight, walk or remember where I f#ing lived! I can’t even imagine playing on AstroTurf because it’s like thumping your head on a sidewalk. supposedly, the new field surfaces aren’t as bad but watching the games on television, I’m not a believer when you see the head bouncing going on. You need to watch some entire games and I promise, if I can understand the game, anyone can (especially with some of the “don’t hurt me” rules these days…). Paid 20 million dollars a year and you can’t play because their thumb hurts.. by god, we would duct tape our damn thumbs back on if they got ripped off our hands and hobble our beat to hell and back asses out on that field and ask for some more!
Helmets are just held on by a plastic strap that goes under your chin and has two metal snaps on each side. If you don't snap both snaps on both sides of your chinstrap, they pop off super easily. A lot of guys don't snap them fully because the chinstrap gets really tight and uncomfortable. I played in 7th and 8th grade (Year 8 and 9, for you UK folks,) and it was really hard to snap down and wear when I started growing longer hair.
With a couple exceptions, these are illegal hits. Regarding season-ending, there's 18 games in the NFL regular season, and the league has a concussion protocol that has to be followed in order to come back. If a player is cleared, the team's coaching staff may still elect to hold them out for further healing. So, a player could very well be out for 10 weeks.
